Comments on: Morosi is disappointed in U.S. stars for dissing the WBC. Here’s why he’s wrong.http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/17/morosi-is-disappointed-in-u-s-stars-for-dissing-the-wbc-heres-why-hes-wrong/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Sun, 02 Aug 2015 18:32:42 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: lookinghitterishhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/17/morosi-is-disappointed-in-u-s-stars-for-dissing-the-wbc-heres-why-hes-wrong/comment-page-2/#comment-428506
Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:50:39 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428506It seems he would hardly pass up the chance to throw his base ball at foreign opposition. Literally. And especially if his catcher were an Irish Papist.
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:46:36 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428461Have we heard from @OldHossRadbourn on this yet?
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:48:44 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428432Either cancel it or shut down all the top leagues for a month every 4 years and really make it the World Cup of Baseball. Right now it seems pretty M-I-C-K-E-Y…
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:41:52 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428428Yeah….wake me when its over. Couldn’t care less.
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:41:31 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428427You just assume that if all the best U.S. players played they would automatically dominate and win the thing every time?
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:12:57 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428412Put me down in the “who cares” column. Well, I don’t suppose anyone is counting votes or anything anyway, because who cares? The WBC is worthless and meaningless and useless. I’d much rather see my team together in spring training.
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:03:37 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428401Oh. I see. NOW Morosi is a fan of Mike Trout!

“The BBWAA membership (rightly, in my view) recognizes MVP candidates who make the greatest impact on a team’s effort to reach the postseason…”. Yeah, because having the impact of winning MORE games, against MUCH TOUGHER division, over LESS TIME in the season, mean nothing. Nope. Nothing at all. Unless, of course, you want Trout playing on your team.

You try to argue that US baseball is clearly the best. That it is so much better than the other countries, that it has nothing to prove. Yet it has never won this tournament. It hasn’t won any medal in it. If we’re so good, prove it. I think US teams went 1-4 vs Japan teams in exhibition games last spring. 1 gold and 2 bronze in 5 opportunities at the Olympics. Cuba, Japan, South Korea and Venezuela are not chumps. Apparently the US produces a lot of 2nd best players.

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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:59:27 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428366In 2011, Trout was dogging it in the AFL, and every single report I read talked about how tired he was.

While it seems odd on the surface, I’ve read from many baseball writers that playing from late February through the end of September at least is an endurance run that takes time to adjust to.

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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:38:26 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428349“then” not “than” as well.
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:07:49 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428335And anyway, who gives a damn what the President of Egypt thinks?
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:57:30 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428322Wouldn’t it be funny if Morosi used abstinence from the WBC as his rationale for voting against some of these guys for the Hall of Fame later on?

No, of course not, it would be fucking idiotic. But after what we’ve seen from the BBWAA in recent years, it doesn’t seem so farfetched.

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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:51:58 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428319Choose AAA players, as well as the guys in spots 26-40 on the MLB rosters. You could probably field a damn good team with these guys.
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:48:48 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428317Personally, I think that the team the USA sends to the WBC should be all Minor League players. They’re really the ones with something to prove.
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:23:50 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428302A player’s primary obligation is to the guy signing the checks. Secondary is that the government gets their share of said checks. Paying taxes is more patriotic than some international baseball tournament; it’s all just a p!ssing contest anyway. Being great doesn’t require consistently displaying that greatness at every opportunity.
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:16:05 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428297WBC = Selig’s Folly. Cancel the stupid thing.
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:10:23 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428295Is he also ripping on Ichiro and Kuroda for not playing for team Japan? It is not an exclusively American phenomenon. Guys have obligations to the teams that sign the paycheck. Plus, most of these guys have the opportunity to play against each other all the time even without participating in the WBC.
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:08:34 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428293Yeah, ’cause the World Series has always existed, since the dawn of time (and perhaps outside it), waiting for a sport to discover it. No way the World Series was contrived or anything.
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:04:06 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428290contrived tournament. fake supremacy.
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:02:39 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428288Since I didn’t capitalize ‘world’, it does count as an error.

”” word ””’

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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:01:41 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428287I believe capitalization of a mis-spelt world cancels out the error.
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:59:34 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428284Someone get Morosi a binky & blanket.
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:54:06 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428281“the US bears a unique responsibility to grow the WBC as the sport’s premier international tournament”
because inventing the game and the MLB wasn’t enough?
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:52:43 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428280“The WBC is kinda cool.” This is where your premise lies and why I disagree completely. I think the WBC should be and could be extremely cool. I’d much rather see premier players in the WBC than the ASG. It means more and I’d like to see that reflected by the players’ choices. Of course there’s high risk to play, but I think the MLB and teams should be as accommodating as possible to the players and create incentives for them to play for their national teams. Incentives could be monetary or whatever. IF, and hopefully when, the vast majority of elites play for their national clubs, come back again and tell me that it would be only “kinda cool”. IF the US won it, I think there would be much more appreciation here too. In fact, that’d be f@cking awesome.
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:39:39 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428270Every ball player that grew up in the US (and many other countries) grew up dreaming of winning the WS. None of them grew up dreaming of winning the WBC. You can’t force weight/importance on a tournament, either it happens (as it did eventually with the World Cup) or it doesn’t….and most of them don’t.
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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:38:41 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=290971#comment-428268Also, you just know that if someone like Verlander got his arm tweaked during a WBC game, Morosi would be one of the first to ask why he was out there in the first place.